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Nuchatlaht Nation Grieves the Damages to the Territory in the Wake of Grieg Seafood Fish Farm Oil Spill
Finding Coral Expedition
In June 2009, Living Oceans Society led the Finding Coral Expedition, a journey to the bottom of the sea on Canada’s Pacific coast in search of deep sea corals. Using one person submarines, a team of international scientists made 30 dives to depths of over 500 metres and saw giant coral forests, darting schools of fish, and a seafloor carpeted in brittle stars.
Another endangered female orca found pushing dead baby calf through Salish Sea
A devastating moment—not just for J36, but for the population as a whole. Pregnancies in this population fail at alarmingly high rates, tied closely to low prey abundance (especially Chinook salmon), pollution, and other stressors. Read the full CBC article.
The Next ESG Flashpoint: Supermarkets And Species Loss
“Shareholder resolution votes act as a barometer for investor sentiment,” said Kelly Roebuck, vice chair of Environment Tasmania and Sustainable Seafood campaign director at Living Oceans. “Last year, Woolworths faced one of the largest votes for a nature-risk resolution ever. Numerous institutional funds from Australia and abroad, representing millions of members, called for Woolworths to act for the skate.
Oceans Update - September 2025
It’s always a thrill to be able to report a good news story. The Fraser sockeye salmon return this year is an amazing gift: at nearly 10 million fish by today’s estimate, this run has outperformed expectations more than three-fold. DFO says it’s the best return on this cycle of sockeye since 1997. We do not believe it to be a co-incidence that industrial salmon farming reached its peak at about that time; or that today’s returning fish are among the first that did not have to run the gauntlet of salmon farms early in their migration.
